BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10289, 14 November 1896, Page 1 (Supplement)

BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.

Westminster Magazine: Frodk. Wnrne and Co., 15 Bedford-street, Strand, London,—Tlio October number is to hand. A review of the session of Parliament is given by Air. Herliby. The. modern ' Wall of Partition,' by the Rev. Angus Mackay (Episcopalian), is a description of the gap caused between the Church and Nonconformity by the belief of the former in tho Apostolical Succession. 'In the estimation of the High Anglican,' says Air. Mackay, the dissenter does not belong to tho visible Church at all, he has no minister, ho has no Sacrament, he is living in schism, which is only excusable on the plea of ignorance.' At an Anglican Communion held during the Grindehvald Conference, the Bishop dt Worcester and the other officiating clergy did not object to certain Nonconformist ministers who presented themselves. The Church Times called tho Bishop's action 'a scandal too grave to dwell upon, and one which ought not to pass without grave reprimand from tho Archbishop and Bishops of tho province of Canterbury;' and the Uuardian declared that 'to a vast number of Churchmen this appeared a simple profanation of tho Sacrament.' At the Church Congress, the President, thu Bishop of Worcester, in defending his action, was hissed and greoted with cries of' Sharao,' and 'Traitor!' The Bishop in the course of his speech said that there were some who looked upon the dissenter as a moral leper. Mr. Mackay goos on to say that if the mechanical view of the Apostolic Succession can be shown to be at best a private opinion, for which the Church has never given the slightest warrant, the excuse for such conduct will vanish. Ho then examines the wording of the formularies to show what the teachingof tho Church of England really is, and the light thrown upon it by Church history and Church custom. Mr. Mackay shows that for 110 years aftor tho ordinal was drawn up and the articles signed, men who had received no opiscopal ordination were admitted without further ceremony into the Church, and that this was done by High Churchmen. He gives the cases, in 1582, of John Morrison, who had recoivod Presbyterian ordination only, and was licensed by Archbishop Grindal; of William Whittingham, who had received neither Anglican nor Presbyterian ordination, und was appointed to the ministry by a lay call at Geneva, and who bocaine Dean of Durham; of Walter Travers (1584), who was appointed to the Mastership of the Temple, ordained only by the Presbyterians. Archbishop Baucroft consecrated three Presbyterian ministers (Spottiswood, Lamb, and Hamilton) Scotch bishops (1610), expressly alleging that their Presbyterian orders were sufficient. Mr. Mackay concludes by showing that any appeal to the Universal Church of postReformation times is useless, as that Church has for 300 years declared Anglican orders themselves to be invalid. , . Any attempt, therefore, to ignore the more liberal theory of the Reformed Church of England on this matter by an appeal to the Undivided Church is obviously futile, and those who hold the mechanical view ought in honesty to recognise that ib is at best a 'piousopinion.' There are interesting articles on ' Professional Dogmatism,' ' The Metric System,' 'Christianity and the Ethical Spirit,'' Journalism as a Profession,' 'The Condition of the Individual in a Socialistic State,' 'The Rovival of Jacobitism,' by Colonel S. Dene White is full of historical information. A paper on 'Local SelfGovernment' and ' Contemporary Literature,' concludes a very readable number. Lloyd's Yesterday and To-day: By Henry N. Grey. John Haddon and Co., London.— We have to acknowledge receipt of a copy of the above work, Wribton by Mr. H. M. Grey.who is abrother of Mr. M. Francis A. Grey, of * Trethella,' Manganui, Midhurst, Taranaki. The author is an underwriter of many years' experience, and ab present acting in that capacity for one of the largest of the London Insurance Companies. As the name suggests, tho book breats of the great centre of all shipping interests throughout the world, with special reference to tho marine insurance aspset, and should prove of great interest to all engaged in shipping matters gonerally, and insurance particularly. The book is illustrated, and gives a graphic narrative of the history of Lloyds ' Yesterday and Today.' From its earliest years Lloyds has enjoyed a reputation for honourable dealing, of which the Corporation is justly proud, and which has been the subject of commendation by the English Parliament. Lloyds' Coffee-house, says one writer, is now an empire within itself— empire which, in point of commercial sway, variety of powers, and almost incalculable resources, gives laws to 1 the trading parb of the universe. Mr. F. A. Grey, of Trebhella, Manganui, Midhurst, Taranaki, is his brother's representative for the sale of the book in the colonies, of which only a few copies are left. The price is 58 6d, '